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Wikipedia, the world largest encyclopedia contains a lot of knowledge that is expressed as formulae exclusively. Unfortunately, this knowledge is currently not fully accessible by intelligent information retrieval systems. This immense body…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Moritz Schubotz

In this paper we present statistical analysis of English texts from Wikipedia. We try to address the issue of language complexity empirically by comparing the simple English Wikipedia (Simple) to comparable samples of the main English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , András Kornai , János Kertész

People use language for various purposes. Apart from sharing information, individuals may use it to express emotions or to show respect for another person. In this paper, we focus on the formality level of machine-generated translations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Dawid Wiśniewski , Zofia Rostek , Artur Nowakowski

In this work, we assess the ability of foundation models to recall encyclopedic knowledge across a wide range of linguistic contexts. To support this, we: 1) produce a 20-language dataset that contains 303k factual associations paired with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Tim Schott , Daniel Furman , Shreshta Bhat

The purpose of this work is to share an English-Yor\`ub\'a evaluation dataset for open-book reading comprehension and text generation to assess the performance of models both in a high- and a low- resource language. The dataset contains 358…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Marta R. Costa-jussà , Joy Chen , Ifeoluwanimi Adebara , Joe Chuang , Christophe Ropers , Eduardo Sánchez

Machine reading comprehension aims to teach machines to understand a text like a human and is a new challenging direction in Artificial Intelligence. This article summarizes recent advances in MRC, mainly focusing on two aspects (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Xin Zhang , An Yang , Sujian Li , Yizhong Wang

Recent work in semantic parsing for question answering has focused on long and complicated questions, many of which would seem unnatural if asked in a normal conversation between two humans. In an effort to explore a conversational QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Mohit Iyyer , Wen-tau Yih , Ming-Wei Chang

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), the applications of LLMs have grown substantially. In the education domain, LLMs demonstrate significant potential, particularly in automatic text generation, which enables the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xingyu Huang , Fei Jiang , Jianli Xiao

The primary objective of our work is to build a large-scale English-Thai dataset for machine translation. We construct an English-Thai machine translation dataset with over 1 million segment pairs, curated from various sources, namely news,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Lalita Lowphansirikul , Charin Polpanumas , Attapol T. Rutherford , Sarana Nutanong

In the rapidly evolving digital era, there is an increasing demand for concise information as individuals seek to distil key insights from various sources. Recent attention from researchers on Multi-document Summarisation (MDS) has resulted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

In this paper, we present the first multilingual FAQ dataset publicly available. We collected around 6M FAQ pairs from the web, in 21 different languages. Although this is significantly larger than existing FAQ retrieval datasets, it comes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Maxime De Bruyn , Ehsan Lotfi , Jeska Buhmann , Walter Daelemans

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of text from the Internet, but do they truly understand the viral content that rapidly spreads online -- commonly known as memes? In this paper, we introduce CHIME, a dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yubo Xie , Chenkai Wang , Zongyang Ma , Fahui Miao

We present two new large-scale datasets aimed at evaluating systems designed to comprehend a natural language query and extract its answer from a large corpus of text. The Quasar-S dataset consists of 37000 cloze-style (fill-in-the-gap)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bhuwan Dhingra , Kathryn Mazaitis , William W. Cohen

In spite of much recent research in the area, it is still unclear whether subject-area question-answering data is useful for machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks. In this paper, we investigate this question. We collect a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Dian Yu , Kai Sun , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Language comprehension and commonsense knowledge validation by machines are challenging tasks that are still under researched and evaluated for Arabic text. In this paper, we present a benchmark Arabic dataset for commonsense explanation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Saja AL-Tawalbeh , Mohammad AL-Smadi

Inquisitive probing questions come naturally to humans in a variety of settings, but is a challenging task for automatic systems. One natural type of question to ask tries to fill a gap in knowledge during text comprehension, like reading a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Wei-Jen Ko , Te-Yuan Chen , Yiyan Huang , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

We present QuAC, a dataset for Question Answering in Context that contains 14K information-seeking QA dialogs (100K questions in total). The dialogs involve two crowd workers: (1) a student who poses a sequence of freeform questions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Eunsol Choi , He He , Mohit Iyyer , Mark Yatskar , Wen-tau Yih , Yejin Choi , Percy Liang , Luke Zettlemoyer

This paper presents a systematic review of benchmarks and approaches for explainability in Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC). We present how the representation and inference challenges evolved and the steps which were taken to tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Mokanarangan Thayaparan , Marco Valentino , André Freitas

In this paper we present the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity dataset. For each existing Wikipedia language edition, the dataset contains a classification of the articles that represent its associated cultural context, i.e. all concepts and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Marc Miquel-Ribé , David Laniado

Knowledge bases are very good sources for knowledge extraction, the ability to create knowledge from structured and unstructured sources and use it to improve automatic processes as query expansion. However, extracting knowledge from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Joan Guisado-Gámez , Arnau Prat-Pérez